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The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth…
The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and privileges that are comprised in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...The bowels of tender mercy sealed in the everlasting covenant wherein is set forth the nature, conditions and excellencies of it, and how a sinner should do to enter into it, and the danger of refusing this covenant-relation : also the treasures of grace, blessings, comforts, promises and priviledges that are comprized in the covenant of Gods free and rich mercy made in Jesus Christ with believers / by that faithful and reverend divine, Mr Obadiah Sedgwick ... ; perfected and intended for the press, therefore corrected and lately revised by himself, and published by his own manuscript ...
London: printed by Edward Mottershed for Adoniram Byfield, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. They are bonds of love; They are every one of them the draughts of 1Gods special love unto you. God doth not first make promises, and then love us; but he first loves us, and therefore draws his bonds of promises; God doth not enter into these Bonds by force against his will unwillingly, but, &c. The promises do plainly tell you how great the love of God is to you, how great his ⟨p. 77⟩goodness is to you; they are the transcript of his mind and heart; Because I love you, I will therefore do all this good for you, and in these I bind my self unto you.
1. They are bonds of love; They are every one of them the draughts of 1Gods special love unto you. God doth not first make promises, and then love us; but he first loves us, and therefore draws his bonds of promises; God doth not enter into these Bonds by force against his will unwillingly, but, &c. The promises do plainly tell you how great the love of God is to you, how great his ⟨p. 77⟩goodnesse is to you; they are the transcript of his minde and heart; Because I love you, I will therefore do all this good for you, and in these I bind my self unto you.
- 1The promises are bands of love.
2. They are susceptions of grace; whatsoever promise God makes to you, 1grace is the foundation of it, and grace is in the performance of it. It is freely made, and as freely made good; nothing moved God to make the promises, but his own grace; and there is no reason why we enjoy the good of them, but Gods own grace, I will do you good, and all this good I will do for my own sake; you shall have it as freely as ever child had kindness from a father.